Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-08-06
Personal.

Jessie Bartlett Davis has sailed for Europe.
nephew Of Lord Beaconsf I'D has written
novel.
Turner, the landscape painter, was once a
BARRIERS assistant
John Bright was never at any school a day
after he was Is years old.
Gladstone was in Parliament at %, and at
"A vas lord OF the treasury
George Nj. Pullman is becoming horse
back rider ut Long Branch
The Rev. Robert Collyer of New York city
has been ''doing" the Yosemite Valley.
Ru.kin publishes his own writings. His
profits last year were S20,0 900 it is stated.
+. Marion Crawford will return to Ameri-
ca in October and spend the winter here.
Professor Tyndall is an Irshman by birth,
born in County Carlow in 1920. He has
come out in favor of coercion.
Sarah Bernhard has been coming money
in London. Her receipts have averaged over
50 500 for each performance.
Gilbert and Sullivan, 1t is reported, are
thinking of writing comic opera founded
on the Wild West show
Miss Alice Freeman has suffered loss of
health through devotion to her work as presi-
dent of Wellesley College.
Mss Bachelor, of Saratoga, daughter Of
General Bachelor. is only II years old and
speaks eight languages tiuently.
Governor Ames, of Massachusetts, has a
daughter named Evelyn, who is said to be
the finest Latin scholar in Boston.
Charles Dickens will give his first public
reading in America on the evening of October
20, in Chickering Hall. New York.
r. NJ. T. Hunter of Virginia, an ex-United
States Senator and Secretary Of State of the
Confederacy is dead, aged IS years.
7 ahnunhara Prinpp Fardl-
nand, of SAKE Coburg, is a poor, insignifi
cant, weak creature, about as fit to govern
country as sickly black beetle.
Prince Ferdinand of SAKE Coburg is an
enthusiastic naturalist. He pc sesses one of
the finest pathological collections in the
world and notable cabinet of precious
stones.
William NJ. Stark, recently appointed col
ector of customs at New London, Conn.,, is
descendant of General Stark, of Revolution
airy fame. Mr.. Stark is lawyer anda college
graduate.
Mr.. Richard T. Booth, the temperance ad-
vocate, has returned to Boston from seven
years tour around the world. In the course
of his labors he induced more than million
people to sign the pledge.
Count Kuroda, special adviser to the Japa-
nese Cabinet, who lately returned from a
ton of work which will contain the observa-
tons made during his visit.
Professor E. S. Morse, of Salem, Mass,
nov has a collect of more than 1000
pieces of japanese pottery, all historically
classified and representing every era in the
development of the art
Mr.. +. X. Vanderbilt is to erect palatial
villa at Newport on ground embracing the es-
tates formerly owned by the late Jacob Dun
nell, of Providence, and w. w. Tucker of
Boston.
William d. Howels is settled for the
summer in a picturesque cottage on the
western shore of Lake George, which was
recently occupied by Edmund Krke, who has
done much literary work there, as did his
father in law, Judge Edmunds before him.
Nine. Jsnauschek is spending the season at
Newport She rides out frequently, but pre-
fers rambling alone She usually wears a
blue flannel, tailormade dress, which is ex-
tremey simple andistylish. She wears ugly,
fat, English walking shoes, for comforts
sake.
Major General Siemens, who lately died in
Berlin, had introduced many important i'm
provements INTO the material of the German
artillery. 1t was mainly owing to his in
fluence that Krupp guns instead of the Eng
lish we're adopted in the German navy.
The Prince of Wales wore at the Goodwo bod
races black sack coat made of rough cloth,
gray trousers white uvergaiters, white
cravat tied in four in hand knot, white
shirt and collar, a pair of yellow kid gloves
and gray Derby bat. He carried cane
with silver handle
Gen. Arson G. McCook, Secretary of the
Uaited States Senate, is hobnobbng with
Ex-Governor Van Zsndt of Rhode Island,
and ex Governor Rice, of Massachusetts, at
Richfeld Springs. 1t is an interesting fact
not generally known that General McCook is
only the eighth Secretary of the Senate since
the foundation of the government